BY JESSICA HEMMINGS Conceptual fatigue has arrived. Practitioners who do not comfortably align themselves with craft as a discipline, or sit more comfortably between material disciplines, are questioning what was […]

BY JESSICA HEMMINGS The artists in FABRICation are engaged with the significance of slow making by hand as a vital form of knowledge. By addressing how our material world is made, they create objects that require slow looking.

BY JESSICA HEMMINGS "Units of Disruption" catalogue essay for Decorum: Tapis & tapisseries d'artistes published in French by Skira Flammarion (2013: pages 189-193) now available. Catalogue published in French. In […]

BY JESSICA HEMMINGS The 7th International Triennial of Contemporary Textile Arts in Tournai, Belgium and the 2011 Miniartextil exhibition in Como, Italy shared one striking recurring theme: the importance of […]

BY JESSICA HEMMINGS Women's Library London, 2011 In 1892, the American author Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper”, a short story that questioned women’s expected occupations as mother and homemaker. […]